Mim's Lighting Project

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I've been working on a funky lighting project for my display cases that's finally complete so thought I'd share some pics with you all.

I origionally got the idea from walking past a local chemist store that used LED strips for their display's and thought woo - now that's cool and would be great for my own display's.

The project took a month from parts bought over e-bay to installed. Install was done over a weekend and total cost was around $80 Aud. This was for three 5m rolls of LED strips, 12v power supply and assorted bits.

Its funny the things you never think of till you come accross them. Case in point (pardon the pun) it was the emptying and then dusting of every single figure when loading up the cases again in the end, which totalled over 300 figures.

Another small side project was closing a gap that allowed direct sun light to hit my cabinets in the mornings. I ended up buying a plastic strip that was heat bent into an L shape by the plastics store I bought it from.

What the LED down lights look like in the black boxes resting on each case. Theres three of these in each light box and these LED ones replaced the regular bulbs it came with, which although brighter, ran rediculously hot and used way more power.

As you'll see from some of the pic's the LED strips are a pure white, much like those HID headlights on cars, so its tends to have a blue tinge. The older LED down lights are a warm more yellow colour that helps balance things out a little.